Motivational Quotes

Luck

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

- Langston Coleman

Best Quotes about Luck

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Hammer, Dr. Armand

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.

Collier, Robert

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Gracian, Baltasar

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

Lowell, James Russell

Luck is the idol of the idle.

Proverb

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.

Beaverbrook, Lord

Substance is not enough, accident is also required.

Proverb, Italian

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

Harry Golden

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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Pollock, Channing

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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Gracian, Baltasar

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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Tracy, Brian

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Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.

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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.

Dickinson, Emily

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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Davies, Robertson

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Luck is being ready for the chance.

Doble, J. Frank

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Luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There is death in the pot. [2 Kings 4:40]

Bible

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There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Good luck is a lazy man's estimate of a worker's success.

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I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

Blake, William

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What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

Webster, John

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Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

Foucault, Michel

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People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success often erroneously attributed to good luck.

Kleiser, Grenville

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In short, luck's always to blame.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.

Langston Coleman

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The harder I work the luckier I get.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Ball, Lucille

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Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

Shay, R. E.

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Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Korda, Michael

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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Cherbuliez, Victor

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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Winfrey, Oprah

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When God throws the dice are loaded.

Proverb, Greek

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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Kroc, Ray

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The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Hawken, Paul

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The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Robbins, Anthony

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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Harris, Joel Chandler

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Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Doisneau, Robert

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The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.

Bible

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Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.

Jerrold, Douglas William